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Just days before the one-year anniversary of last summer's war between Russia and Georgia, tensions between the two countries have escalated to the point where observers are worried they could break out into another full-scale conflict. As both sides accuse the other of attacks and provocations, it seems the fragile peace established after five days of fighting in August 2008 is at risk...
...After claims by Russia over the weekend that Georgia had lobbed mortars over the border into South Ossetia, Georgia's Foreign Ministry on Monday accused Russia of setting up new border posts inside undisputed Georgian territory. Calling the move "extremely alarming," the Ministry said the incident - which allegedly happened on Sunday near the village of Kveshi, between the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali and Gori, Georgia's second largest city - was an "attempt by the Russian occupants to penetrate into the depth of Georgian territory." (See pictures of the war in Georgia...
...part, Russia is accusing Georgia of planning aggressive action in the run-up to the war's anniversary on Aug. 7. "The Georgian leadership is plotting various events on the border with South Ossetia to coincide with the anniversary of the 2008 events in the Caucasus ... They are of a distinctly provocative nature," Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Wednesday, according to Russian news agency Itar-Tass. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...Georgian forces launched an early-morning assault on South Ossetia after days of clashes between Moscow and Tbilisi over the fate of the breakaway republic and that of Abkhazia, another republic that had declared independence from Georgia following wars in the early 1990s. Hours after the attack, Russia responded with what the West condemned as a "disproportionate" use of force. Within five days, Russian forces had driven Georgian troops out of South Ossetia and into central Georgia. During the war, international human-rights groups accused Georgia of indiscriminately shelling civilian areas and Russia of allowing the ethnic cleansing of Georgian...
...that the terms of the cease-fire brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy are not broken. But they have not been given access to the Russian-patrolled South Ossetian side of the border and so cannot confirm the reported provocations or back up any of the accusations Russia and Georgia are leveling at each other. (See pictures of the Russians in Ossetia...